“Before Covid, an average of 22 export restrictions were being introduced a year. Since 2020, that average has shot up to 228,” writes Robert Walker in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/export-bans-wrong-way-go-back

“When the Antarctic Treaty was negotiated in 1959, it was forged in the depths of Cold War nuclear tension – cooperation achieved precisely…” Read Jeffrey McGee and Richard Rowe in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/antarctic-diplomacy-s-back-basics-test

“Decisions made in Canberra will determine not only the size of Australia’s aid program, but the kind of partner Australia chooses to be,” writes Joanna Pradela in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/budget-week-puts-australia-s-aid-ambitions-line

“What appears, from the outside, as persistence under constraint is in fact a distinct mode of political action,” writes Erin Hurley in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/indigenous-peacebuilders-have-different-answer-carney-s-rupture

“Trafficking networks distribute risk across platforms, routes, and jurisdictions, ensuring that disruption in one area does not…” Read Jose Sousa-Santos in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/technology-making-pacific-s-drug-highway-harder-detect

“ASEAN has shown increasing comfort with India as a security partner, distinct from concerns about entanglement in the US-China competition,” writes Shantanu Roy-Chaudhury in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/india-building-navy-neighbours

“How the New Zealand government treats its oldest partnership does not stay within its borders; it shapes the conversations, expectations and standing that…” Read Mary Watson‑Burton in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/new-zealand-s-treaty-troubles

“With the exception of Myanmar, no tanks were needed. The rules did the work,” write Cecep Hidayat and Sondang Grace Sirait in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/indonesia-democracy-without-collapse

“Where diaspora communities are leveraged for narrow strategic gain without investment in their…” Read Hiya Harinandini, Maisha Samiha and Teesta Prakash in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/beyond-model-minority-rethinking-australia-s-indian-diaspora

“A prolonged crisis threatens not just reduced transfers but mass layoffs and migrant returns,” writes Ahmed Albayrak in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/iran-war-s-toll-indo-pacific

“What ADMA’s architects understand – and Kyiv’s defenders have demonstrated since 2022 – is that modern national defence is not a military problem alone,” writes Mick Ryan in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/taiwan-s-mobilisation-model-holds-lessons-australia

“For the US, a low-level conflict that keeps pressure on the Taliban, complicates China’s ambitions and imposes costs on Pakistan is not necessarily one to be resolved,” writes in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/beijing-arrived-late-war-it-cannot-end

“Bugatti had held the all-time speed record for six years. BYD built its challenger in 18 months,” writes Richard Neumann in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/why-your-next-car-most-likely-be-ev-made-china

“In an era defined by volatility, the smartest economic decision may not be securing more fuel – but needing less of it,” write Aquila Van Keuk, Deepak Chand and Paul Munro in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/pacific-s-fuel-problem-has-solution-sun-shining

“The challenge is not to transform the UN into something it cannot be, but to understand it more clearly for what it is,” writes Abhinandan Kumar in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/un-not-broken-it-was-built-way

“China has few friends at senior levels of Japanese politics. Nor does it seem to want to make them,” writes Richard McGregor in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/why-would-japan-meet-small-country-australia

“Perversely, overly restrictive rules of origin may even negate the tariff-driven cost advantage that ASEAN countries enjoy over China,” writes Henry Storey in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/asean-s-rules-origin-problem

“These provisions transform PNG judges from passive arbiters into ‘social engineers’,” write Sinclair Dinnen and Miranda Forsyth in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/png-s-frontier-judges-peacebuilding-bench

“Hungary becomes something genuinely new, the first test case of whether democratic erosion is structurally…” Read James Paterson in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/hungary-shows-illiberal-regimes-can-be-beaten-harder-question-whether-they-can-be

“You cannot arrest and prosecute your way out of political violence and terrorism,” writes Lydia Khalil in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/trump-gutted-very-programs-designed-protect-him

“Canberra cannot conjure up a vital US national interest where none exists,” writes Sam Roggeveen in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/canberra-can-t-want-alliance-more-washington-does

“For New Delhi, it will help if Dhaka blinks first,” writes Shanthie Mariet D’Souza in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/india-s-bangladesh-gamble

“Buckingham Palace will gladly open its doors whenever an Australian prime minister rings the bell,” writes Charles Lyons-Jones in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/state-visit-us-charles-iii-cameos-king-australia

“The environmental costs of decarbonisation are not eliminated. They are displaced – across regions, ecosystems, and communities,” writes Larelle Bossi in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/quiet-contradiction-heart-energy-transition

“Addressing the deeper sense of existential dread associated with technology requires a broader shift in how society understands and integrates innovations,” writes Mauro Lubrano in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/when-technology-becomes-target-political-violence

“At present, the Customs authorities are seizing Starlink equipment at the country’s borders,” writes Amanda H A Watson in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/png-court-clears-way-starlink

“Seoul and Washington had many opportunities to translate their advantage into a concrete political outcome, but they let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” writes Khang Vu in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/south-korea-no-longer-holds-cards-against-north

“Maritime security is not a secondary theatre. It is a permanent condition of national life,” writes Sean Andrews in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/ocean-much-more-backdrop-australia-s-security

“The mentality of believing Iceland is a ‘small and insignificant country’ out of sight and out of mind, in 2026, is naive, bordering on reckless,” writes Lisa Martin in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/fickle-iceland-geopolitical-pickle

“Farmers may sit at the start of the production chain, but they are often at the end of the financial one, with the least capacity to absorb delay,” writes Mary Watson‑Burton in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/are-new-zealand-s-politicians-ready-cold-stretch

“Whereas Tsai generally conducted a major overseas trip each year, Lai has cancelled two of the three trips he planned since…” Read Michael Cunningham in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/beijing-intensifies-diplomatic-isolation-taiwan-s-president

“Afghanistan is behaving as if it is selling gravel, not assets central to the global economy,” writes Javed Noorani in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/afghanistan-surrendering-its-mineral-wealth-its-future

“Less money for renewable energy and economic development, and more money for fossil fuels and defence equipment, is a combination…” Read Grace Stanhope in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/japan-charting-new-course-development-looking-wrong-direction

“Australia and Indonesia are bound by geography, shared waters and a relationship that predates…” Read Ridvan Kilic and Sharyn Graham Davies in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/australia-s-oldest-trading-partner-was-indonesia-it-s-time-students-knew

“The junta wants us to forget its crimes by accepting Min Aung Hlaing’s appointment as fait accompli,” writes Manny Maung in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/myanmar-s-authoritarian-creep

“In maritime disputes, endurance matters as much as firepower,” writes Lowell Bautista in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/china-remaking-south-china-sea-return-island-building

“Middle powers do not need to agree on everything to work together on something,” writes Biyon Sony Joseph in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/misdiagnosis-middle-power-cooperation

“If self-improving AGI is the last invention humanity will need to make, AI might well be the last opportunity,” writes Tom Barber in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/ai-danger-no-longer-myth-it-s-called-mythos

“The more convincingly Taipei can be portrayed as ungovernable and inconsistent in its long-term policy approach, the more Beijing can erode the…” Read Aniello Iannone in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/taiwan-s-deeper-vulnerability-politics-home

“Australia cannot do everything, but it cannot do nothing,” writes Grace Corcoran in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/australia-s-indian-ocean-ambition-needs-capable-partners

“The relationship did not lack substance, only sustained attention,” writes Paul Pelczar in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/shared-solidarnosc-tobruk-canberra

“A levy on Malacca Strait transit would not be a toll in the Panama Canal sense, but an act of Indonesia sawing at the very…” Read Dita Liliansa in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/toll-malacca-strait-puts-indonesia-s-own-legal-foundations-risk

“Bringing more women into the military is one thing. Ensuring they have equal access to strategic roles is another,” writes Yokie Rahmad Isjchwansyah in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/indonesia-falling-behind-indo-pacific-military-inclusion-it-doesn-t-have

“The more useful distinction is not between values and behaviour. It is the relationship between them,” writes Mary Watson‑Burton in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/values-migration-test-has-definition-problem

“The Sino–North Korean relationship has been reconstituted as an ideological fortress, shielding North Korea’s nuclear status from external pressure,” writes Seong-Hyon Lee in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/why-china-now-embraces-nuclear-north-korea

“What appears as domestic political noise can carry external weight,” writes Febrian Alphyanto Ruddyard in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/when-power-hesitates-world-recalibrates

“Sea denial can restrict an adversary’s freedom of manoeuvre, but it does not guarantee Australia’s own,” writes Jennifer Parker in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/maritime-gaps-remain-australia-s-defence

“Once you start allowing blanket overflight for one belligerent, you are no longer just managing access,” writes Pornomo Rovan Astri Yoga in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/blanket-overflight-indonesia-law-neutrality

“The BBNJ Agreement changes the very understanding of ‘freedom of the high seas’,” writes Michael Bliss in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/how-australia-shaped-ambitious-high-seas-treaty

“What this presents is perhaps a more open-door policy for international courts to consider environmental claims that may fail at a domestic level,” writes Makaela Fehlhaber in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/after-greenpeace-vs-norway-what-must-states-do-drilling